Computer Science and Engineering
    University of California at Santa Cruz
    Email: qchen161 at ucsc dot edu
Bio
I am a final-year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UC Santa Cruz. I am fortunate to be advised by Prof. Sungjin Im .
Research Interests
I am broadly interested in Theoretical Computer Science, in particular, approximation algorithms, online algorithms, learning-augmented algorithms, and the hardness of approximations.
Publications
A Beyond-Worst-Case Analysis of Greedy k-means++
with Sungjin Im, Ryan Milstrey, Benjamin Moseley, Chenyang Xu, and Ruilong Zhang
The Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS '25)
Review: SODA 2026, FOCS 2025, ESA 2025, STOC 2025, SODA 2025, ESA 2024, FOCS 2024, SPAA 2024, STOC 2024, ITCS 2024, IPCO 2023, SODA 2023, ISAAC 2022, APPROX 2022